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I just got an email from with subject line "You’re now using Gemini on web", detailing unclearly how they may be using my data (without my consent, I did NOT opt-in).

That subject line is so offensive.

(usually known as " ")

Some quotes from this article. It's longer than it feels to read, and is worth your time if you're into .

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Now? We’re building a world where that curiosity gets lobotomized at the door. Some poor bastard, born to be great, is going to get told to "review this AI-generated patchset" for eight hours a day, until all that wonder calcifies into apathy. The terminal will become a spreadsheet. The debugger a coffin."

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"Kids would stay up all night on IRC with bloodshot eyes, trying to render a cube in OpenGL without segfaulting their future. They cared. They would install Gentoo on a toaster just to see if it’d boot. They knew the smell of burnt voltage regulators and the exact line of assembly where Doom hit 10 FPS on their calculator. These were *artists*. They wrote code like jazz musicians - full of rage, precision, and divine chaos.
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"The thing I hate the most about AI and it's ease of access; the slow, painful death of the hacker soul... Brought not by war or scarcity, but by convenience. By buttons. By bots."

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"You want real connection to code? You *earn* that. You dig in. You wrestle with segfaults at 3 in the morning. You pace your apartment muttering about pointer arithmetic. [...] You write your own damn notes instead of snapping lecture slides and pretending it counts. When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning. [...] You don’t *know* your code. You’re babysitting it." ~ deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusio (asterisks inserted for italicization)

I think it's time I make the jump away from . But I could do with some help on what to do... ack!
I actually have a bunch of parts around to put together a chunky -based phone. I'll just need a small (USB?) modem first... can anyone help?

arstechnica.com/security/2025/
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I recently found an iPhone at a café - looked like one of the more premium models. Tried to give it to the bar personnel, but the seat wasn't reserved and they had no clue how to contact the owner.

The phone and the case didn't have anything identifying. Tried to see if it was secured and it showed that it had a pin of six numbers. Pretty sure I couldn't get in, I tried all zeroes and 123456. Bingo. The latter one was correct

I opened the phone book just to check whether there was a favorite contact. There wasnt but there was an ICE. Texted the ICE that he phone can be picked up at the café and handed it to the personnel, solely stating that it would be picked up.

But OMG. It feels so incredibly wrong to go over those details - if I had malicious intentions I might have been able to inflict serious harm.

Please, if you want your phone to be recoverable: make sure it has some identifying info (or enable Find My) - and if you don't want that, make sure it is impossible for a hack like me to get in that easily.

Mobile phones often contain data that you don't want to share completely with one person!

I hope goes out of business, at this point. Another crash and another lost session.
I'm either gonna downgrade ("downgrade") from this expensive PC, or I'm gonna see if I can replace its socketed CPU with one with (non-Nvidia) integrated graphics.

Reminded of how the things of the world don't satisfy ( ) ultimately.

I've been trying out this Kagi search engine. A friend highly recommended it.
mastodon.social/@kagihq/114802

Remember: there is always a worse song that could be stuck in your head

"The Light Phone 3 is a revolutionary device -- not because of its feature set, AI, or next-gen hardware, but because it asks of you something no other smartphone does: to put it down." ~ zdnet.com/article/i-gave-up-my

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